Hungary spill reaches Raba river, not yet Danube
Reuters – Rescue workers clear up toxic sludge in the flooded village of Devecser, 150 km (93 miles) west of Budapest, …
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A toxic red sludge spill from an alumina plant in western Hungary has reached the Raba river on Thursday but not yet the Danube, a major European waterway, the spokesman for Hungary's disaster agency said on Thursday.
Tibor Dobson said crews were battling to reduce the spill's alkaline content, which was still at around pH 9 -- above the normal, harmless level of between 6 and 8 -- when it reached the Raba at 0330 GMT (12:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday). The Raba flows into the Danube.
Dobson said the spill had killed fish in the Marcal river first hit by the pollution, which poured out of a containment reservoir of an alumina plant on Monday.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Tibor Dobson said crews were battling to reduce the spill's alkaline content, which was still at around pH 9 -- above the normal, harmless level of between 6 and 8 -- when it reached the Raba at 0330 GMT (12:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday). The Raba flows into the Danube.
Dobson said the spill had killed fish in the Marcal river first hit by the pollution, which poured out of a containment reservoir of an alumina plant on Monday.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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